Author’s Notes: Okay so lets just say I’ve been daydreaming a lot lately and this really weird idea popped up in my head. XD Here are the results to my insanity. Haha Hope you like it as much as I did. :D

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6AM, Christmas morning
No shadows
No reflections here
Lie cheek to cheek in your cold embrace

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Sasuke was dying.

Ashy lips, shallow eyes, and cold stale skin; the love of his life was leaving him.

It had been many months that his raven-haired boy had been stricken with the horrible illness of leukemia. There was absolutely no cure. No reason for Hope.

It was his time, and no one could change that, not even Naruto.

All the blue-eyed boy could do was watch the love of his life wither away in front of him, on that bitter forlorn hospital bed that not even the doctors would dare to touch.

Sasuke’s body was immobilized, he was loosing his raven locks of hair, and his skin was starting to peel.

His lips, once rosy as those of pink lilies, were now but two pairs of ragged skin.

It was a horrible sight for Naruto. Tears streamed down his cheeks every time he saw the terrible pain his Sasuke was in.

Pain that even he wouldn’t be able to ease, no matter how many sweet words he whispered into the dying boys ear.

“Naruto…” the black-eyed boy dryly wheezed out, his eyes slowly beginning to shut.

“Sasuke…no…! Don’t you dare die on me…!” Naruto cried, tears spilling out of his eyes uncontrolably, “You’re not done here yet…! You can’t leave me…! No!”

“I…did…my time…” was the lone response, a weak smile spreading across the young Uchiha’s lips, “I-love you…Naruto…”

“Sasuke!” Naruto screamed, clenching on to Sasuke’s motionless stale hand.

“Good-b-…”

The shine from his beautiful dim eyes, it was gone. His pulse had stopped. The warmth in the black-haired teen’s hand slowly began to disperse.

He was gone.

Sasuke had left him. Sasuke was dead.

“Sasuke! Sasuke! No!” Naruto shrieked, shoving the limp dead body on the hospital bed with his hands, “You can’t-! No…”

With dreadful realization of what had happened, Naruto collapsed on top of his lover, his tears forming a small river on the dead boy’s chest.

No…Sasuke…

The yellow-haired boy sobbed uncontrollably. His body started vibrating like a dysfunctional machine, misery stabbing at his temples as he felt the bare chest beneath him grow cold without a pulse. A chest that was once as warm as the sun’s soft lukewarm rays.

Please…don’t go…

Minutes later, doctors rushed in, shaking their heads in disapproval at the sight as if knowing that there was absolutely no way they could bring the young boy back to life.

It was his time to finally rest in peace.

With a forced final good-bye, Naruto slowly placed a soft kiss on top of Sasuke’s dry frosty lips.

The last time that he would ever feel his lover’s lips ever again. The last time he would ever see his Sasuke.

“I…loved you too…Sasuke.”, Naruto whispered in the raven-haired boy’s ear, his voice cracky from shock “And I always will.”

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Digging your smile apart with my spade tongue
And the hole is where the heart is
We built this tomb together
I will fill it alone.

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One year had passed since that tragedy, one entire year.

Misery and anguish were still present in Naruto’s heart. 365 days without his lover. 365 days without feeling his Sasuke’s touch. 365 days of absolutely no happiness at all.

365 without anyone.

All he had was Sasuke, and he was gone. No one else seemed to care that the young Uchiha was gone. Some even laughed at his death like if he was a joke all his life. Some scoffed, and even spat as his grave as they passed by.

With a single tear streaming from his rosy cheeks, Naruto placed a single lily on Sasuke’s grave. He reread the engraved letters on the stone, “Sasuke Uchiha”, hoping with his all that the name would magically change into another and he would have his beloved Sasuke back.

But who was he fooling?

Sasuke was Dead. And no one could bring him back. No One.

“When we were together…when we first met…Sasuke…” Naruto whispered, his voice shaky as he talked to the solemn grave in front of him, “You told me that…if I looked closely, there was this imaginary world all around me...a world where everything was Perfect”

xXx Flashback xXX

“Naruto!”

“Hey! There you are, teme!”, Naruto shouted back, running towards the raven-haired boy.

“Dobe, you thought I’d ditch you or something?” Sasuke joked, taking his yellow-haired lover in his arms.

“Haha…I knew you wouldn’t, baka.” Naruto replied, wrapping his own arms around the Uchiha’s neck, “I missed you.”

“I missed you too.”

“So uh…what do you wanna do?” Sasuke asked, his sweet voice ringing at Naruto’s ear.

“Anything.”, the blonde cheerfully said.

“Well…let’s see…” Sasuke pretended to ponder, bringing his hand up to his chin in thought, “Did you know that there’s this special world that no one has ever visited? Where pain is oblivious, and happiness is but a factor…?”

“Uhh…no…how do you get there?”, Naruto asked curiously, doubting what the boy had just said.

“Well I really don’t know how to get there…but I’m sure that you will one day.”, Sasuke smiled, scratching the back of his head leisurely, “Let’s go eat, kay?”

“You got it!”, Naruto shouted back in reply, placing a single kiss on Sasuke’s rosy pink lips as he followed his lover to the ramen restaurant.

xXx End of Flashback xXx

“A world where pain is oblivious, and happiness is but a factor…” Naruto quietly repeated to himself, fisting his hands as he recalled the painful memory, “As if such a stupid thing existed…”

He mentally slapped himself at how stupid he was to actually believe that there was such a world. A world where there wasn’t any pain, a world where happiness was normality. A world that only he could find…who would believe something so absurd?

Yet, he still couldn’t deny the small hope he still held in his heart that one day he would be able to find this Imaginary world.

The blonde’s thoughts were suddenly interrupted as he felt another presence approach the lonely grave. He immediately predicted that it was just another villager scoffing at the plated stone, but to his surprise it was actually someone that he had never seen before.

Yet, the man looked so much…so much-like his Sasuke.

Long black hair tied back in a tail, deep crimson eyes, and beautiful flawless skin.

The man’s presence was almost unreal.

He stared intently with his cerulean eyes as he watched the older man kneel down in front of Sasuke’s grave and placed a single red rose on top of the memorial.

A memorial that only Naruto had been giving to, that is, until now.

“I see you knew my brother as well.”, was the windy tone coming from the long-haired beauty.

“I…yeah-I mean…we were best friends…” Naruto lied, not wanting to admit his and Sasuke’s secret relationship.

“Do not lie to me.” The strange man replied, his voice as calm as he looked, “I know that the both of you loved each other.”

A long awkward silence was placed upon the two men after those words were said. Neither of them moved, their eyes staring at the name implanted on the dull stone grave. Naruto’s daze fell in awe as he observed the wind go through the older Uchiha’s hair, watching attentively as every black strand swayed in the wind like flower petals in a Spring breeze.

The man was gorgeous, maybe even as beautiful as Sasuke.

“What is your name?”, the crimson-eyed man asked, his gaze not severing itself from the grave.

“…Naruto.”, the blonde replied, still staring at the beautiful creature in front of him.

“Strange name, Naruto.”, the man whispered, as he flipped back a long strand of hair from his face.

“What’s your name?” Naruto asked, taking a step forward towards the man.

“Itachi.”, he replied, “Itachi Uchiha.”

“Sasuke was a beautiful child.”, Naruto heard Itachi say, his voice barely audible, “He was always full of hopes and dreams; wonderful fantasies that he held on to, no matter how absurd they sounded. He had no limits to his thoughts.”

Naruto felt his eyes itch with tears. Every time he heard something about Sasuke he fell into weeps that lasted for hours.

“He loved life.”, Itachi finally whispered after a long pause, “He loved you. The only person that cared for him, the one person he cared for.”

“I…”

“You no need say anything.”, the crimson-eyed man quickly said, getting up on his own two feet, “I’m sure you’ve said it plenty of times.”

Naruto quietly gulped as he noticed Itachi starting to approach him, and almost fell back when he felt a warm hand rest on his tense shoulder. The first warmth he ever felt in one entire year. Warmth that seemed much too familiar for his own good.

“It seems we have much in common.”, Itachi tenderly said, looking straight into the blonde boy’s eyes, “I have something to tell you that might interest you a great deal.”

Naruto doubted what Itachi said for a moment. For instance, he had never met this man until today and all of as sudden the guy starts saying that he ‘knows something of great interest’ to him and that they had ‘much in common’? It seemed strange.

Naruto crossed his arms, skeptical of what the older man had said, “Oh, yeah? Well, I don’t buy it.”

Itachi chuckled kindly, bringing a slim hand to his mouth to cover his faint smile.

“I understand.” He said, “Sasuke meant much to you, and you’re not about to let a random man tell you that he has much in common with you just because he knew Sasuke as well.”

Naruto let his arms fall to his side, awed by the other man’s intellectual.

“Yeah, so?”, Naruto replied, trying his best not to look or sound too astounded.

“Please, meet me by the Cherry Trees near Konoha Village’s stream, the only place where bass swim about”, Itachi tranquilly said, taking his hand from off of Naruto’s shoulder, “And please…come alone.”

“Huh…?” Naruto answered, squinting his eyes as if he could barely see the man right in front of him.

“What you heard”, Itachisimply responded, turning his back at the blonde and making his way back from where he came from, “2:00 p.m. Please, don’t be late.”

It felt strange accepting an invitation from a complete stranger that he’d only met once in his life. But then again, this man wasn’t really a stranger. After all, he was Sasuke’s older brother. What really drew Naruto’s attention toward the older man was his eyes.

His eyes seemed to be filled with wisdom, eyes that had gone through many quarrels in the past.

Tired eyes.

Beautiful, yet bitter.

Something that Naruto had never encountered in anyone in his 15 years of life. Not even Sasuke’s eyes where this alluring.

“Um…okay…”, was the distant reply escaping the blue-eyed boy’s mouth, as he watched Itachi disappear in the distance from between the old oak trees.

Naruto…this boy, he’s unusual. The ideal beauty of Perfection in the flesh.

With a slight smile, Naruto looked towards the grave in which his Sasuke was laid to rest, then with an imaginary wave he bid goodbye, making his way to his own home.

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If I was your vampire
Slim as the moon
Instead of killing time
We'll have each other ‘ till the sun.

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So that is the boy to which my younger brother fell in love with…

Such a beautiful boy he met.

Those blue eyes…resembling that of the ocean, yet far more blue and filled with life.

Those yellow strands of hair, brighter than those of the sun’s rays, much more golden than that of pure gold…

Yet, he lives in Anguish.

My little brother…that world that we talked about ever so much, would you mind if I introduced it to Naruto?

Oh, how I long for the deep sleep dreaming, the fairness of Imaginary Light.

xXx End of Itachi’s PoV xXx

Naruto had reached his apartment where he had spent all his 365 forlorn nights.

Quietly, he made his way to his room making sure that he wouldn’t fall over anything since the house was bleak without light, due to the lateness of Iruka’s light bills.

Reaching his destination, the yellow-haired boy through his tired body on the bed. Silently recalling to himself the fairness of the face that he had encountered at the cemetery that morning.

A beautiful man, maybe in his twenties, Naruto thought, crimson-eyes and long black sleek hair, he resembled Sasuke so much that the first time he had seen him a flash of hope had crossed his mind that maybe it was actually Sasuke.

Not to mention, the serenity on the man’s face; as if he had absolutely no worries at all, he was beautiful beyond words, Naruto thought, his eyes slowly beginning to shut.

Before he could finish his thought, sleep fell upon his body, making him fall into a profound slumber.

Oh, yes, sleep…the only place where he could see his Sasuke again, the only opportunity he had each and every day to be blissful in his own Imaginary world.

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As I stumble in my morphine haze

Barely conscience of the predawn light
That filters through steel meshed windows
Keeping out your life
Reigning in your death
I stumble past the coated watchers
Break into a run
Yearning for the air outside
I never stop thinking of you

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It was morning.

Naruto woke up, annoyed by the fact that it was Monday and he had to make his way to the store to purchase some milk. Since the milk in the fridge was long from decaying.

Lazily, he sat up on his bed, rubbing his eyes with his fists, trying to get the waste from out his eyes. Satisfied with the bothersome little pieces gone, he stood up and made his way to the kitchen.

He opened the fridge, hoping that maybe the milk hadn’t gotten bad yet. But to his dismay, the date indicated that the milk was indeed bad since 2 weeks ago.

“Aw c’mon…”, Naruto mumbled, slamming the fridge’s door shut as he made his way towards the front door.

He slipped on his sneakers, and unlocked the door.

He noticed something unusual at his doormat.

2 cartons of milk, and an envelope.

Suspicious, Naruto picked up the envelope, ripping the flap off and taking out the small letter from inside.

Hn…maybe it’s just Iruka.

But in fact it was anyone but Iruka.

The strange fancy handwriting indicated so.

Worried, Naruto sprinted to his room, slamming the door behind him as he began to read the letter to himself.

Dearest Naruto…

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Well that took forever…Omg! XD Itachi has pure intentions with Naruto…or does he? Dum-dum-dummm!! Lol Who is the letter from???? Review and make me wanna make you find out. Hehe Feedback is always lovely too. ;)